Improvement in vehicle-axles



UNITED STATES" PATENT OEEIoE.

CHARLES W. BALL, OF MACON, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN VEHICLE-AXLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 219,432, dated September 9, 1879; application led July 18,1879.

To all whomtt may concern:

Beit known that I, (JHARLES W. BALL, of Macon, in the county of Macon and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Axle, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in axles ior carriages, wagons, and other vehioler; and it has t'or its object to more uniformly and efficiently lubricate the spindles, and to obtain amore perfect adjustment of the runninggear.

The invention consists in a vehicle-axle which has an oil-reservoir and in its spindle a recess separated by an apertured partition from the reservoir, so that the recess may be illed with packing that cannot work into Iand wrap around the spindle.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view otl the axle with the spindles in section. Fig. 2 is a top View of the axle. Figs. 3 and 4 are similar views of a modified form ofthe axle.

Similar letters ot' reference indicate corre-` sponding parts.

Referring to the drawings, A is the axletree, and B B are `the spindles, both cast in one homogeneous piece of metal. On the upper side of the axle-tree,' at each end, are recesses (t a, Jforming beds for the springs. Between the beds and the collars b 5arelrecesses c, provided with covers, thus 'rmiug boxes for packing' and the lubricant. is axhole, d, for pouring` the lubricant through into the bo'x.

ln the spindles are recesses e, nearly as long as the spindles. The bottoms ot' these recesses have openings through them, either in the form oi'a long narrow slit, j', or perbrations g, as shown. in Figs. 1 and 2. These recesses are divided from the lubricating-boxes by partitions h, with one or more pert'orations leadA ing through them, to permit the lubricant to ow through freely tothe recess.

1n the cover tallow, or tar, in addition to the oil chambers,

or boxes c. These are tilled with packing and supplied with oil passed through the openin g in the cover, from whence it Hows through the partition to the recess in the spindle, and thence it is Vfed to the spindle.

A simple and economical axle is thus formed by making the axle-tree and spindle in one, the cost is greatly lessened, and, in addition, a truer adjustment of the running'gear is obA tained than is possible where the tree and spindle`are made separately. The lubricating arrangements, too, are more simple and et'- tcient than those now employed.

The axle shown in Figs. l and 2 is more especially intended for light road-wagons using platform-springs. For common farm-wagons Ipropose to use that form shown in Figs. 3 and 4, wherein the center of the axle-tree is made hollow. There are recesses t' t i'or the reach and hounds ot' the wagon; butotherwise this form of axle is made the same as that lirst described. having recesses in the spindles, lubricating-boxes, and separatingpartitions for the lubricant to flow through.

l am aware that it is not new to make axles in one piece with their spindles, or with seats for the springs 5 but What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Paten r, is-

A vehicle-axle provided with an oil-re.'- ervoir, c, between the spring-seat c. and the collar b, and a spindle, B, bottom-slitted, and having reoess c, separatedi by an apertl'ired partition, la, from said reservoir, as shown and described.

CHARLES WESLEY BALL.

Witnesses:

THoMAs G. DINKALL, JAMES W. S'runers. 

